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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36289	A pick-tooth for swearers, or, A looking glass for atheists and prophane persons wherein the greatness of the party offended, the solemn giving of the law, together with the strickness and purity thereof, the unquestionable verity of the Holy Scriptures, and what fearfull sentence the wiked may expect in the great day are briefly touched.	Donaldson, James, fl. 1697-1713.	1698 (1698)	Wing D1854; ESTC R25002	12,163	24

A PICK-TOOTH FOR SWEARERS OR A LOOKING-GLASS FOR Atheists and Prophane PERSONS WHEREIN The Greatness of the Party Offended the Solemn giving of the Law Together with the Strickness and Purity thereof The Unquestionable Verity of the Holy Scriptures and what fearfull Sentence the Wicked may expect in the Great Day are briefly touched EDINBURGH Printed by JOHN REID at his Printing-House in Bells-Wynd ANNO DOM 1698. Unto the Right Honourable SIR ARCHIBALD MURE of Thorntown Lord Provost Bailies WILLIAM MEINZIES ARCHIBALD RULE JAMES NAIRN GEORGE MITCHEL PATRICK HALIBURTON Dean of Guild SAMUEL M'CLELLAN Theasurer And the Remanent Council of the Ancient and Honourable CITY EDINBURGH Right Honourable THe Great Disposer of all Things in His Providence hath committed the Oversight and Care of a great many Persons unto your Charge And GOD be thanked at present this Honourable and Ancient City the Metropolis of Scotland is provided with Magistrates and Counsellors who testifie their Dislike of Prophanity and Immorality and give a Copy to those under their Charge to study Piety and Vertue Notwithstanding of all which more of these Vices abound in this Place than can be easily Suppressed Even tho the Government hath lately Emitted a Proclamation for putting the Ancient Laws against such Transgressours more punctually in Excution I am fully convinced every one according to their Capacity's and Stations ought to contribute their Endeavours for suppressing vice and I have Essayed to Compose a few Verses whereby the reprehending thereof is in some measure aim'd at How meanly soever the Subject be handled 't is all the Mite I can throw in towards the prosecution of such a Laudable Design Your Lordship and Honours are the only Persons I judge these few Lines can most fitly be addressed unto Wherefore I with all Humility offer Them to Your Consideration and if they may Contribute any wayes towards the discouraging of Prophanity and Looseness it shall yeild great Satisfaction to Your LORDSHIP and HONOURS most Humble Servant Ja Donaldson A PICK-TOOTH for SWEARERS c. GReat Master of the Muses Mighty THOU Before whose Face all Knees shal trembling bow Thou who commands Thy Sacred Name to be With Reverence mention'd and Humility And holds him guilty of Attrocious sin That needlesly doth take 't his lips within Thou who doth make the Dumb distinctly Talk And Blind to See and Lame with eveness Walk And maketh Babes to give Thee perfect Praise Inspire my Pen and my Affections Raise Afford me Matter so Assist my Quill That I may Write according to Thy Will Then shall my joy and happiness be more Then these whose Cups with Wine and Oyl run O're The Great I AM who only IS Alone And in the Heav'ns establish'd hath-his Throne HE who spread forth the Azure Skies above And in their Spheres makes all the Planets move He that the Earth's Foundations strong did lay And made these Lights which separat Night from Day He who the Heav'ns doth Measure at one Span And of the Dust Created Mortal Man He that doth fill the Heav'ns Earth Sea and Air Without Dimensions present every where Who Fram'd the Crooked Serpent Bounds the Waves And Fashon'd all the Subterraneous Caves He who the Stares doth number all by Name At whose Command all things from Nothing Came. He who doth weigh the Mountains in a Scale And Lay'th in Balance every Hill and Dale In whose great Sight all Nations seem to be As Crawling Worms yea les than Gnat or Flee Great HE put on a Rob of Majestie And on the Wing of Subtile Air did Flie. Before his Face the Stable Heav'ns did Bow Then in a Cloud HE Visits Earth Below In Thickest Darkness Wrap'd his Hallowed Light Least Mortals had been Struck dead at the Sight The Earths Foundations mov'd Heavn's Pillers Shook All Creatures Trimbled while this Great HE Spoke The Hills did Leap like Timerous Kids or Lams The Mountains trembled as their helples Dames When Bear or Woulf Comes on their young to Prey Ev'n so the whole Creation Quak'd that Day Mount Sinai Smoak'd Lightnings Abroad did Flie By voice of Thunder than His Majestie Expres'd his Greatness in a solemn Way The Trembling Camp thought Heav'n and Earth that Day To their first Nought should be Reduc'd anone And Instantly his Judgement Seat or Throne Erect'd should be while the great Troump did sound Some Fled and some Fell flate upon the Ground The Trumpet still sounds Louder till at last Th' Eternal HE was pleas'd to stop the Blast Than by a distinct voice to Israel said These words which after in the Ark were laid Ingraven on two Tables made of Stone Wrot by the Finger of the Great THREE-ONE And must Imprinted be on every Heart That would not in Eternal Torments Smart Thus Spoke Great HE I Am Thy Lord and King Who doth Alone from Bound Slavery bring No other Gods have thou at all but ME. And to no Image Bow or Bend thy Knee My Sacred Name take not at all in Vain Nor any of My Attributes Prophane Such as Transgress shall no ways Guiltless be But holden Guilty in a high Degree Men may esteem the Trespass small but I Will after such Offenders strictly try My Hand shall find them out I will not Spare That vile presumptuous Wratch who 's bold to darr In his vile Mouth to take My Hallowed Name Without due Reverence and a Praying Frame I 'll Smite him Through with Darts of fiercest Wrath And Sharpest Vengeance yea Eternall Death And hightned Fury on his Soul shall Seize Without the least hours Respite Sift or Ease His Tongue shall Fry in hotest Pot of Hell That thus Offends yea and his Soul shall Dwell In most exquisit Torments in that Cave Which for the Devils I Prepared have First to the Eye is represented there Most dreadfull Spectres Round them every where Hobgoblings dancing in prodigious Shapes Like Lyons Tigers Dragons Bears and Apes With Horns of Steel and Iron-Teeth like Darts And forked Claws for tearing Sinners Hearts Thou no glad Musick in that place shall hear Nor other Noise shall touch thy Cursed Ear But Ruefull Shrikes and Knocks of Ratling Chains And mutual Curses of Dire Ghosts in Pains Who One Another tempted have to Sin Plagueing the Day their ' quantance did begin No Sweet Refreshing Smell shall ther be found But noxious Savour Eevery Where abound Of all vile Filth and stinking Sulphurous Smoak Least Smell of which all Mortal Flesh would Choak Were it not now so strongly Verg'd about With thickest Earth that none thereof gets Out No softer touch is there than Scorpions Stings And Byting Asps yea all Termenting Things Do there Combine and all their Force Unite To Plague the Body and Torment the Sp'rit The Worm of Conscience Gnawing thee Within When thou Reflects upon thy By-pass-Sin Its gentlest Byts much